Bangalore (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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A ‘chosen few’, famine of 78/79, [?] Binicunnyalun, near Bangalore, 1878 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022DD/4
Scope and Contents
151 x 194 mm. Grouped portrait of emaciated famine victims posed in the doorway of a thatched house. Full accounts of the Indian famines of the 1870s can be found in the Parliamentary Command Papers, Report of the Indian Famine Commission. See in particular Part III, Famine histories (c. 3086 of 1885).
Dates:
1878 - 1879
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Photographs of India